top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-04-24

Seinfeld Adventure

https://www.seinfeldgame.com/

6 years ago

861 upvotes – 168 comments

A Third Solution

https://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-third-solution.html

6 years ago

673 upvotes – 516 comments

Agile's early evangelists wouldn't mind watching Agile die

https://builtin.com/software-engineering-perspectives/lean-agile-methodology-software-engineering

6 years ago

616 upvotes – 466 comments

Disabling Snaps in Ubuntu 20.04

https://www.kevin-custer.com/blog/disabling-snaps-in-ubuntu-20-04/

6 years ago

599 upvotes – 422 comments

Coming soon: Fedora on Lenovo laptops

https://fedoramagazine.org/coming-soon-fedora-on-lenovo-laptops/

6 years ago

444 upvotes – 233 comments

PWA Store

https://progressiveapp.store/pwas

6 years ago

402 upvotes – 217 comments

Custom Game Engines: A Small Study

https://gist.github.com/raysan5/909dc6cf33ed40223eb0dfe625c0de74

6 years ago

390 upvotes – 175 comments

Long-lost U.S. military satellite found by amateur radio operator

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/24/843493304/long-lost-u-s-military-satellite-found-by-amateur-radio-operator

6 years ago

321 upvotes – 56 comments

R 4.0

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2020/000653.html

6 years ago

306 upvotes – 162 comments

Analyzing Analytics (Featuring: The FBI)

https://exploits.run/analytics-analysis-fbi/

6 years ago

286 upvotes – 43 comments

Nicomachean Ethics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicomachean_Ethics

6 years ago

282 upvotes – 158 comments

How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2020

https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2020/04/24/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-2020/

6 years ago

247 upvotes – 115 comments

Thousand-year-old mill has resumed production due to demand for flour

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/1000-year-old-mill-reopens-flour-demand

6 years ago

241 upvotes – 213 comments

WD Sets the Record Straight: Lists All Drives That Use Slower SMR Tech

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-lists-all-drives-slower-smr-techNOLOGY

6 years ago

237 upvotes – 147 comments

How to play board games online with your friends

https://masilotti.com/play-board-games-online/

6 years ago

228 upvotes – 211 comments

Ultraviolet Irradiation of Blood: “The Cure That Time Forgot”? (2018)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6122858/

6 years ago

224 upvotes – 506 comments

What happens when scientists admit error

https://elemental.medium.com/when-science-needs-self-correcting-a130eacb4235

6 years ago

221 upvotes – 164 comments

Best Practices for Working with Configuration in Python Applications

https://tech.preferred.jp/en/blog/working-with-configuration-in-python/

6 years ago

209 upvotes – 68 comments

WhatsApp ties NSO Group’s hacking operations to America in new court evidence

https://tech.newstatesman.com/security/whatsapp-ties-nso-groups-hacking-operations-to-america-in-new-court-evidence

6 years ago

190 upvotes – 28 comments

Blurred rounded rectangles

https://raphlinus.github.io/graphics/2020/04/21/blurred-rounded-rects.html

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 26 comments

Amazon asks workers sheltering at home to return or request leave

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-24/amazon-asks-workers-sheltering-at-home-to-return-or-seek-leave

6 years ago

179 upvotes – 227 comments

Show HN: A simple storage pricing calculator for AWS

https://www.duckbillgroup.com/aws-super-simple-storage-calculator/

6 years ago

169 upvotes – 78 comments

Why Sex? Biologists Find New Explanations

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-sex-biologists-find-new-explanations-20200423/

6 years ago

168 upvotes – 96 comments

Medical staff say virus stigma driving Tokyo hospitals to edge of collapse

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/04/24/national/tokyo-front-line-hospital/

6 years ago

167 upvotes – 134 comments

The pandemic is bringing us closer to our robot takeout future

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/the-pandemic-is-bringing-us-closer-to-our-robot-takeout-future/

6 years ago

167 upvotes – 112 comments

CSS for Internationalisation

https://www.chenhuijing.com/blog/css-for-i18n/

6 years ago

165 upvotes – 37 comments

The Illusion of Certainty

https://app.spectator.co.uk/2020/04/22/the-illusion-of-certainty/content.html

6 years ago

156 upvotes – 33 comments

Tiers of answers to half-baked questions

https://blog.plover.com/misc/half-baked.html

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 49 comments

'Insect apocalypse' more complicated than thought

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52399373

6 years ago

155 upvotes – 92 comments

500K bet on rock paper scissors ruled invalid by Quebec court

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/500-k-bet-on-rock-paper-scissors-1.5543533

6 years ago

149 upvotes – 210 comments

Accidentally Turing-Complete

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complete.html

6 years ago

148 upvotes – 58 comments

Xubuntu 20.04

https://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-20-04-released/

6 years ago

145 upvotes – 47 comments

Console for Mobile Browsers

https://github.com/liriliri/eruda

6 years ago

★ 20.9k JavaScript MIT
141 upvotes – 21 comments

An Android 8.0-9.0 Bluetooth Zero-Click RCE

https://insinuator.net/2020/04/cve-2020-0022-an-android-8-0-9-0-bluetooth-zero-click-rce-bluefrag/

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 61 comments

FC5025 USB 5.25” Floppy Controller

http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html

6 years ago

139 upvotes – 74 comments

Amazon May Have Misled Congress, House Judiciary Chair Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-23/amazon-may-have-misled-congress-house-judiciary-chair-says

6 years ago

126 upvotes – 56 comments

Basic Docker Commands for Beginners

https://codeopolis.com/posts/25-basic-docker-commands-for-beginners

6 years ago

124 upvotes – 22 comments

Asymptomatic transmission, Achilles’ heel of current strategies to control Covid

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2009758?query=RP

6 years ago

123 upvotes – 85 comments

Unpublished children's notebooks reveal poignant view of history

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/unpublished-childrens-notebooks/

6 years ago

122 upvotes – 16 comments

'Oh no, I spelled it wrong': Nurse runs solo marathon in shape of 'Boston Strog'

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/oh-no-i-spelled-it-wrong-nurse-runs-solo-marathon-in-shape-of-boston-strog-1.5541268

6 years ago

110 upvotes – 48 comments

Noam Chomsky: A Green New Deal Can Create Jobs and Livelihoods

https://lithub.com/noam-chomsky-a-green-new-deal-can-create-jobs-and-livelihoods/

6 years ago

109 upvotes – 73 comments

Gravity assist maneuvers in space

https://jatan.space/daring-gravity-assist-maneuvers/

6 years ago

106 upvotes – 38 comments

Fed Prints Another $205B This Week, M2 Growing at Fastest Pace on Record

https://thesoundingline.com/fed-prints-another-205-billion-this-week-m2-growing-at-fastest-pace-on-record/

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 139 comments

Museum of Computer Adventure Game History

https://mocagh.org/

6 years ago

96 upvotes – 2 comments

Doing Python Configuration Right (2019)

https://whalesalad.com/blog/doing-python-configuration-right

6 years ago

92 upvotes – 72 comments

Charlatans sell bogus treatment exposing blood to UV light (2016)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittmariehermes/2016/09/26/uvlrx-therapy-charlatans-medical-devices/#6c6b187c2c5d

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 6 comments

Researchers discover ferroelectricity at the atomic scale

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-ferroelectricity-atomic-scale.html

6 years ago

89 upvotes – 8 comments

Near 90% Mortality Rate in Intubated Covid-19 Patients in NYC

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/86101

6 years ago

84 upvotes – 96 comments

What Is a Game? (2018)

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/what-game-2018-06-04

6 years ago

83 upvotes – 41 comments

Show HN: Like Headspace, but free forever

https://meditofoundation.org/

6 years ago

81 upvotes – 35 comments

Show HN: Booste – Run apps in EC2, synced to your own text editor

https://www.booste.io

6 years ago

79 upvotes – 31 comments

Show HN: A free online ordering system for restaurants

https://order.storekit.com/product

6 years ago

78 upvotes – 20 comments

Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22970602

6 years ago

75 upvotes – 122 comments

European mortality monitoring shows increase in excess mortality

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 124 comments

Times New Arial

https://timesnewarial.liebermannkiepereddemann.de/

6 years ago

74 upvotes – 10 comments
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